利克斯的第勒尼安语系稍后得到许多语言学家支持,有斯特凡·舒马赫(Stefan Schumacher)、[6][7]卡洛·德·西蒙(Carlo De Simone)、[8]诺伯特·厄廷格(Norbert Oettinger)、[9]西蒙那·马克西尼(Simona Marchesini)[4]和雷克斯·华莱士(Rex E. Wallace)等。[10]3种古语言的共同特征集中在词法、音系和句法。[11]另一方面,词汇对应很少,这一部分是因为雷蒂亚语和利姆尼亚语的记录本就很少,语系可能也分裂得很早。[1][12]
赫尔穆特·利克斯将原始第勒尼安语的分化日期定于前2千纪的最后四分之一。[13]:141–164卡洛·德·西蒙和西蒙那·马克西尼认为分化日期更早,是在青铜时代到来之前。[4][14]:9–32[15]:123–136这可以为数量稀少的同源词提供一个解释。[1]据包可·范·德·摩尔(Bouke van der Meer),雷蒂亚语可能在约公元前900年或更早时候与伊特拉斯坎语分离,在不晚于公元前700年时,两种语言的差别已经可以由铭文观察到,如过去式的语态和男性的姓的词尾。从约公元前600年开始,雷蒂亚语可能受山南高卢扩张的影响被孤立于伊特拉斯坎语区之外,因此限制了两种语言间的交流。[16]
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^Kluge Sindy, Salomon Corinna, Schumacher Stefan. Raetica. Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna. 2013–2018 [26 July 2018]. (原始内容存档于2022-02-02).
^Kluge Sindy, Salomon Corinna, Schumacher Stefan. Raetica. Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna. 2013–2018 [26 July 2018]. (原始内容存档于2022-02-02).
^Marchesini, Simona. I rapporti etrusco/retico-italici nella prima Italia alla luce dei dati linguistici: il caso della "mozione" etrusca. Rivista storica dell'antichità (Bologna: Pàtron editore). 2013, 43. ISSN 0300-340X(意大利语).
^Myres, JL, A history of the Pelasgian theory, Journal of Hellenic Studies (London : Published by the Council of the Society), 1907, s. 16 (Pelasgians and Tyrrhenians).
^Strabo, Lacus Curtius (public domain translation), Jones, HL transl., U Chicago, 再一次,安提克莱伊德斯说他们(佩拉斯吉人)是第一批定居在利姆诺斯岛和格克切岛区域的,事实上,其中一些人和阿提斯的儿子一起航行到了意大利.
^Herodotus, The Histories, Perseus, Tufts, 6, 137, [2021-08-21], (原始内容存档于2022-06-16).
^Penney, John H. W. The Etruscan language and its Italic context. Etruscan by definition: the cultural, regional and personal identity of the Etruscans. Papers in honour of Sybille Haynes. London: British Museum Press. 2009 (英语). 这些与安纳托利亚语族的联系不太有说服力,尽管伊特拉斯坎语和利姆尼亚语间的关系很紧密。这仍可以导出伊特拉斯坎语最可能起源自东部,不过在那之前,还需要注意一种与伊特拉斯坎语关系密切的语言。它是雷蒂亚语,在阿尔卑斯山区域至维罗纳以北只收集到约200个词。尽管资料很稀缺,仍能识别出一些相似的语言模式,指向与伊特拉斯坎语的亲缘关系。”(....)(伊特拉斯坎语)与雷蒂亚语的同源词似乎完全令人信服,但也要注意,两种语言还是有一定差别的(例如,父源姓后缀相似但不相同),所以不能仅将雷蒂亚语视作伊特拉斯坎语的一种变体。和利姆尼亚语的情况一样,我们有属于同一语系的亲缘语言,那么,我们该假设原始第勒尼安语在史前就已经扩张到同时囊括三者的地域上了吗?的确,雷蒂亚语的发现将这些问题的讨论引向争议,以及随之而来的地理复杂性,使得伊特拉斯坎人直接从小亚细亚迁来这个模型看上去太简单了。在我们能给出历史描述的任何时期内,我们现在仍不能确凿地说,伊特拉斯坎人一定来自意大利以外的什么地方,无论特洛伊战争后流离失所的场景看上去有多么浪漫。
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